US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 3 for "Variable dispatch walk for successive cache accesses" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,454, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Variable dispatch walk for successive cache accesses" was invented by Saurabh Sharma (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jeremy Lukacs (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hashem Hashemi (Roseville, Calif.), Gianpaolo Tommasi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Guennadi Riguer (Markham, Canada), Mark Fowler (Boxborough, Mass.) and Randy Ramsey (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system is configured to translate a first cache access pattern of a dispatch of work items to a cache access pattern that facilitates consumpti...